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Israeli military says dozens of Gaza militants killed over past day.

Four men suspected to be behind the murder of a 48-year-old woman and her 22-year-old daughter were killed in a shoot-out with police on Saturday.

A shop employee was critically injured after being shot in the legs with a rifle during an altercation with a taxi rank security guard at Sundumbili in KwaZulu-Natal.

Renowned fashion designer Thula Sindi says the allegation by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) that he was involved in embezzling a poultry farm grant is slanderous as he provided a service and cannot “forensically audit sources of my customers or clients' income”.

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has expressed concern over the increase in STI infections in Gauteng due to risky sexual behaviour, while experts say the rise can be attributed to low condom usage and low use of sexual and reproductive health services among men.

Young people engaging in casual sex are increasingly using pills to protect them from contracting HIV, rather than condoms, which could also prevent sexually transmitted infections.

While the department of basic education and the national government publicly celebrated last year’s 80% matric pass rate, little detail has been provided on all the statistics governing our country’s matriculation results in 2023.

“Streets have never been safe, but we do it for the sake of surviving.”

The report of the SABC’s ill-conceived hatched plan to amend the existing decade-long agreement on actors and writers remuneration fees should be challenged by creative sector practitioners.

The government’s scholar transport contracts are supposed to be operational from April to March of the following year, as the period is the state’s financial year.